Lost Sound - Jeff Porter

Lost Sound

The Forgotten Art of Radio Storytelling

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
304 Seiten
2016
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-2777-9 (ISBN)
40,95 inkl. MwSt
Examines the vital interplay between acoustic techniques and modernist practices in the growth of radio. Concentrating on the period from the 1930s to the 1970s, but also speaking to the rising popularity of today's narrative broadcasts, Porter's close readings of key radio programmes show how writers adapted literary techniques to an acoustic medium with great effect.
From Archibald MacLeish to David Sedaris, radio storytelling has long borrowed from the world of literature, yet the narrative radio work of well-known writers and others is a story that has not been told before. And when the literary aspects of specific programs such as The War of the Worlds or Sorry, Wrong Number were considered, scrutiny was superficial. In Lost Sound, Jeff Porter examines the vital interplay between acoustic techniques and modernist practices in the growth of radio. Concentrating on the 1930s through the 1970s, but also speaking to the rising popularity of today's narrative broadcasts such as This American Life,Radiolab, Serial, and The Organicist, Porter's close readings of key radio programs show how writers adapted literary techniques to an acoustic medium with great effect. Addressing avant-garde sound poetry and experimental literature on the air, alongside industry policy and network economics, Porter identifies the ways radio challenged the conventional distinctions between highbrow and lowbrow cultural content to produce a dynamic popular culture.

Jeff Porter teaches English at the University of Iowa, USA.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 10 halftones
Verlagsort Chapel Hill
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Gewicht 460 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Film / TV
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10 1-4696-2777-9 / 1469627779
ISBN-13 978-1-4696-2777-9 / 9781469627779
Zustand Neuware
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